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In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
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Tritium release behavior for thermal neutron-irradiated Li0.17Pb0.83 eutectic alloy was studied. Main tritium release peak was observed in the temperature just a little higher than melting point in a thermal desorption spectrometry (TDS) experiment. Most of tritium release from Li0.17Pb0.83 eutectic alloy was found to be governed by diffusion process from the results of isothermal annealing experiments. Tritium diffusivity in a liquid state of Li0.17Pb0.83 eutectic alloy was evaluated to be D = 4.7 × 10-8 exp(-0.13 eV/kT) m2 s-1 . Tritium diffusivity was increased by the phase transition of Li0.17Pb0.83 eutectic alloy from a solid state to a liquid state, resulting in the sharp tritium release peak that appeared in TDS spectrum. In addition, about 4% of tritium was trapped in Li0.17Pb0.83 eutectic alloy as Li-T bond.